Réflexion libre à travers ľATM paragraphs on ATM

Fifteen years after its first tentative steps in the laboratory, ATM seems to have reached the thankless age of confrontation with the reality of operational networks while others would say the age of potential to fulfil and promises to keep. The following article does not pretend to be an in-depth technical analysis of a particular aspect or development of ATM but rather the thoughts of a witness to a number of past, present and future issues. The objective is much more to stimulate thought on ATM than to provide definitive answers to often difficult questions.